Caption: A colorless panel of Batman standing calmly but depressed in a diner.
From my favorite Batman story, 'Perpetual Mourning' by Ted McKeever, which can be found in 'Batman: Black and White'(1995) issue #1
Bruce "Batman" Wayne
Created in 1939 by Bob Kane and Bill Finger(first appearing in Detective Comics #27), Batman is one of DC comics' most popular superhereos--though he has no superpowers--with several comic series, live action films, animated films, animated series, live action series, video games, and one of the largest fanbases of any comicbook character. He can be characterized by his constant seriousness and brooding mood, as well as his imense fighting and detective abilities.
As the story goes, Bruce was a very cheerful kid born into one of the wealthiest and most respected families in the city of Gotham, and sheltered from the rampant crime that characterizes the city. But one night as he and his parents left a movie theater, they were stopped by a mugger(random guy named Joe Chill) in Crime Alley. Hearing the pearls of his mother hit the ground, Bruce saw both of his parents senselessly shot and killed, and watched the mugger run from the crime scene. Bruce was left standing next to his parents' dead bodies, utterly traumatized, and swore to spend the rest of his life warring on crime.
As he grew up, he used his parents' wealth to train in every existing martial arts, develop nearly every kind of conceivable skill, and study to become a master detective(soon becoming known as the world's greatest detective). This training took him throughout the globe, finding many different teachers, and developing all kinds of knowledge. All until he was in his early twenties and he retured to his family's mansion near Gotham, accompanied by his childhood butler, Alfred Pennyworth. Still, he hadn't come up with the concept of Batman just yet: until one afternoon, he sat in his father's study unsure of what to do next and found a bat crashing through the window, and he declared,
"I shall become a bat".
Now, Bruce spends his days as the wealthy, philanthrophist, playboy CEO of Wayne Enterprises--Bruce Wayne--and his nights as the vigilante crime fighter Batman--fighting the never ending war against crime with his sidekick, Robin, and a growing number of Gotham vigilantes, which he's come to see as his (bat)family.
Physical Appearence
Batman's crime fighting outfit tends to consist of:
- A black cowl--half open in the front;
- White lenses atop eyes;
- Triangle bat-like ears;
- A long black cape;
- Black or blue long gloves;
- Three long spikes on the back of his forearms;
- A typically gray tight suit with the Bat-symbol on the chest;
- A yellow belt with many tools and batarangs;
- Black or blue external-'underwear';
- Long-ish boots (weird-ass looking boots, too);
